IDENTILIN$$ F166.00G/HSMin/1669, p. 318/TJS/o(MH)/5-23-92/cf(CtY)/9-6-92\P&C:JSC\mf(CtY),cd(L)\4-3-03\p:mvf\fs(TxAM)\10-17-07
166.00G.0HE %XIX.
166.00G.001 I%+F poysonous Minerals, and if that tree,
166.00G.002 Whose Fruit threw death on (else immortal)[immortall) (MH)] us
166.00G.003 If lecherous Goats, if Serpents envious
166.00G.004 Cannot be damn'd, alass, why should I be?
166.00G.005 Why should intent or reason, born in me,
166.00G.006 Make sins, else equal, in me more hainous?
166.00G.007 And mercy being easie and glorious
166.00G.008 To God; in his stern wrath, why threatens he?
166.00G.009 But who am I that dare dispute with thee?
166.00G.010 O God, oh%1!%2 of thine onely worthy blood,
166.00G.011 And my tears, make a heavenly Lethean flood,
166.00G.012 And drown in it my sins black memory;
166.00G.013 That thou remember them, some claim[claime (MH)] as debt,
166.00G.014 I think[thinke (MH)] it mercy if thou wilt forget.
166.00G.0SSom
166.00G.0$$ %1no ind; NB: transcription from MH gave "immortall" l.2, "claime" l.13, & "thinke" l.14--either press variants or errors (note: these readings match those of earlier editions, but not, as indicated in ID. line, CtY)%2